Tala Mi Kyaw
Queen Consort of Ava
About Tala Mi Kyaw
Tala Mi Kyaw (; or တလမဲကြိုး By 1401, she was already married to her cousin Saw Maha-Rit. Her capture greatly shocked and angered Razadarit. The king immediately withdrew from the front, and had Saw Maha-Rit executed for having left her behind. The chronicles however do not list her as a senior queen (nan mibaya) or a child-bearing consort. However, the Razadarit Ayedawbon, which narrates from the Hanthawaddy perspective, says Minkhaung gave her in marriage to his middle son Prince Thihathu. Per the Zatadawbon Yazawin chronicle, the prince was born , meaning he would have been in his 8th year (7 years old) in April 1402. Historians G.E. Harvey and Htin Aung follow the main chronicles' narrative that she became a queen of Minkhaung.
Formalization of her status Her capture extended the war to the following dry season. Vowing to avenge for his daughter, Razadarit invaded the upcountry again as the rainy season ended. However, the campaign went nowhere for four months, and peace negotiations began in January 1403.
In the end, her status proved to be a small part of the larger negotiations. Razadarit agreed to let his daughter remain "by the side of the king of the golden palace [Minkhaung]" but in return insisted on a reciprocal marriage of state between him and Minkhaung's younger sister Thupaba Dewi. The proposed marriage became a requirement before Razadarit would agree to granting the annual custom revenues of Bassein to Ava. After five months of negotiations, Minkhaung relented, and sent his sister to Pegu in marriage to Razadarit.
Aftermath In all, the princess was the first of the four Hanthawaddy royal family members to be resettled in Ava during the Forty Years' War. (The peace did not last; the war resumed in 1408. ) Her brother-in-law Gen. Smin Bayan, husband of Princess Tala Mi Saw, was captured in battle in 1414 before he formally defected to the Ava side in 1415. Her half-brother Binnya Set of Dagon too was captured in battle in 1418, and resettled in Ava, befitting a prince. Her half-sister Princess Shin Saw Pu came to Ava to be a senior queen (nan mibaya) of King Thihathu of Ava as part of the peace treaty of 1423 that ended the Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1422–1423).
At any rate, the 1403 negotiations were the last mention of Princess Tala Mi Kyaw in the chronicles. She apparently never rose to be a senior queen, or had any children with Minkhaung. Nor did she return to her home kingdom either; of the four royals, only Gen. Bayan and Queen Pu are reported to have managed to return to Pegu.
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